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Broadcast area | Greater Scranton, Pennsylvania 105.7 Scranton, Pennsylvania |
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| Frequency | 90.3 MHz |
| Branding | WFTE Community Radio |
| Programming | |
| Format | Defunct (formerly Community) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Community Radio Collective, Inc. |
| History | |
First air date | 2011 |
Last air date | September 27, 2016 (2016-09-27) |
| Technical information1 | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| 172918 | |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 3,000 watts |
| HAAT | 29 meters (95 feet) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°23′9″N 75°24′7″W / 41.38583°N 75.40194°W / 41.38583; -75.40194 |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | wfte.org |
WFTE (90.3 FM) was a radio station licensed to serve Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania, and (105.7 FM) Scranton, Pennsylvania The station's licensee was Community Radio Collective, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization.
WFTE Community Radio aired live on the air in 2011.2 With translator W289AU on 105.7 FM, WFTE Community Radio broadcast to around 500,000 residents in the greater Scranton, Pennsylvania area.3 For a time, WFTE provided the studio equipment for Bob Fass's long-running radio show Radio Unnameable, which was in turn syndicated back to Fass's former flagship WBAI and a limited number of other affiliates.4
WFTE's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on June 27, 2018, due to the station having been silent since September 27, 2016.
References
References
- "Facility Technical Data for WFTE". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- Durkin, Jessica (August 21, 2010). "Room on the Dial: Group Wants Community Radio in Scranton". New America Foundation's Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age Blog.
- Borthwick, Tom (August 23, 2010). "WFTE – Community Radio". NEPArtisan.
- Kalish, Jon (November 21, 2016). "Columbia University acquires archival recordings of Bob Fass's 'Radio Unnameable'". Current. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
External links
External links
- Facility details for Facility ID 172918 (WFTE) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- WFTE in Nielsen Audio's FM station database